Pastor Eric Nyamekye continued from his first message “the glory within”,  where he said that the New Covenant far surpasses the old, and also that the glory of God which is Jesus Christ was planted as a seed and has produced many Jesus fruits (believers) whose seeds are not different from the seed that was planted. The potential of Jesus Christ was released, and His agenda of building a Church through which His glory would be shown to the whole world and to the principalities and powers and the authourities in the air, has also been fulfilled. Now in this message, Ps. Nyamekye said that there is every need to manifest the glory which is within of believers.

The Old Testament was about Moses and the law he said, and so people had to make copies of the law or better still memorize it very well and carefully. They were encouraged to put copies of the law around their necks while others had it like a wrist watch because of the need to know what the law says exactly about any situation, lest they suffer punishment for faltering the law. He also said that the Old Covenant was centered on Moses. It was not Israel that met the Lord God on the mountain, but Moses. So when Moses told them that God said they should go and worship Him, they followed God through Moses. Once when Moses tarried on the mountain, the hopes of the Israelites were shattered and so they carved an idol to worship because they told themselves that Moses who brought them that far was dead. The covenant was so centered about Moses so that their only source of God’s word was Moses, he noted.

In Hebrews 1, we read that God at sundry times in the Old Covenant spoke to His people through His prophets (including Moses); but in this new dispensation He is speaking to us through His son Jesus Christ. Pastor said that when Moses died, God was very careful to bury him Himself because the Israelites (seeing Moses as a kind of god) wouldn’t have buried him. Where God buried him they never knew; if they knew they would have gone to dig him up and worshipped it or even burn him and share the ashes. It is obvious that it was all about Moses. But in this new dispensation, it is not about any man, neither is it about the law; but it is about the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ.

Making reference to Mark 1:35 – 37, Pastor Nyamekye said that in this new dispensation, Jesus Christ is the one that people are looking for and not any man (like it was in the old covenant), so that believers in the new covenant should not seek to project themselves but Christ Jesus. Again after Christ had read the scroll in the temple (Luke 4:20), all eyes in the synagogue looked at Him intently. People are looking for Him to answer their questions, meet their needs and to solve their problems. He is the very reason why we’re gathered here, he added. Therefore, we should make this encounter with Jesus transformational; if not, then it is a waste of time and money.

But it was also important for believers to know that this Jesus is resident in them. Pastor told of an event of the demonstration of the power of God which happened when he was about 16 years old. He had come to pray with a friend at the University of Ghana Botanical Gardens for about 3 days, after which they were so weak in the body. While returning, they lost their way only to hear of people screaming for help. When they got to the scene, the people needed someone to get a taxi for a woman who was dying. Now they were too weak to run, so his friend suggested that they pray for the woman instead. After Pastor prayed for the woman, she came back to life. “At that tender age, I knew that there was something on the inside that had worked on the outside”. When they got back to school that day, he said that they lined up all their colleagues and ministered to them the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He encouraged the congregation to accept and live by the truth that there is some power inside of them, some glory, which works on the outside to bless the world.

“It has pleased God that the fullness of the Godhead bodily should dwell in Jesus Christ”, which means that when we have Jesus in us, we also have the Father and the Holy Spirit in us. What power then could stand a person who knows and lives with this truth? Yet Christ is in us only as a seed, he added, yet a seed with all its full potential, so that when we grow the seed and learn to apply this truth in our lives, we also are able to use the power within. In Galatians chapter four he said, we know that as long as the heir is a child, even though all things belong to him, yet he is not different from the slave. Pastor’s prayer was that the congregation would begin to grow and become the heirs which they truly are, so that the Jesus on their inside would manifest on the outside to meet the needs of the world. Halleluiah!

With reference to his earlier story, Pastor Nyamekye said that the people who needed help were calling on the name of the Lord – ‘Lord, Lord, Lord’. But he and his friend had to present themselves, because the Christ they were calling up to was actually resident in them. Pastor encouraged participants to present themselves anytime they encounter people calling for help from God – “Christ in you is the hope of the manifestation of the glory God”.

Placing a greater emphasis on the truth that the whole of deity dwells in believers in all reality, Pastor told of an incident which happened to him while praying sometime ago. He said that he had locked himself up in prayer, looking for God so strongly. During the prayer, he raised a song which when translated in English would go like “Father, I’m expecting you, I’m expecting you, I’m expecting you… to intervene in my situation”.  After singing over and over about four times, tears were streaming down his cheeks. He was so heavy and down, seeking an intervention of God for his life. But when his spirit became still, he said that he heard the Spirit of God singing back to him “My son, I’m expecting you, I’m expecting you, I’m expecting you… to do something about the situation, because all my power is in you”.  The Holy Spirit reminded him that the work which Christ did on the cross was indeed complete, and so “I am hoping in you to allow my greatness which is in you to be released”. Amen.

Pastor Nyamekye also said that the book of Acts (written by Luke the physician) was a continuation of what Jesus began to do and teach, just as the first book (the gospel according to St. Luke) – Acts 1:1. Therefore, the Acts of the Apostles should remain as the name (and not the Acts of the Holy Ghost) because it talks about what Jesus continued to do through men. “By Christ’s death, the same seed has come into the heart of believers, and it is the same Jesus who is working through us”. Pastor said that Jesus had simply changed bodies – the Church is His present body and believers make us the members of the Church. This means that when the Church moves, speaks or kicks, it is Jesus who is doing same, meaning that the Acts of the Apostles is about what Jesus continued to do.

He further explained that the glorious image of Christ is bonded in an earthen vessel (2 Cor.4:7); fragile vessels made of clay, so that the excellency of His glory could not be attributed to any person but God Himself.  The apostle Paul he said was one of the earthen vessels, a short man with a bald head and a big nose and, bowlegged and even with sight problems probably after the Damascus encounter (according to those who have described him).  Others said that his eyebrows met on his nose. Naturally speaking, there wouldn’t be any interesting stuff to write about the apostle Paul, yet he was the vessel God used in those times.

Similar to Kathryn Kuhlman, her colleagues teased her when she was growing up as a young girl because they said she looked like a man. But when she had grown and was being used by God, she was so lean, with so small a waist. Yet when this frail tall lanky woman comes on the scene and says “I believe in miracles”, God would so mightily move. It is not about the vessel, but rather what is inside the vessel, he said. He said similar things for John Wesley and Benny Hinn, and also the fact that it doesn’t matter the gender of the vessel, but the power within and how the vessel is able to release it.

He also said that the apostle Paul was used by God not because he was an intellectual. And even about James Mckweon, he went to school only for three years in his life, yet the product he left behind is there for all to see. It is not about how intelligent he was, but it was about how determined he was to release the spirit within him.

Pastor Nyamekye then proceeded to mention about five ways which he thinks participants could consider in their bid to release the Spirit within them.

The first point he mentioned was that believers must know the glory within and be determined to release it. He made a reference to the apostle Paul’s statement of longing to see the Church in Rome,  that he may impart unto them spiritual gifts which would further establish them (Rom. 1:11). Pastor said that Paul knew so well what was on his inside to the extent that he could even release of what is within to them through the laying on of his hands. He encouraged participants to believe the power within them and be determined to release it. “Go home and when your daddy is sick, lay hands on him and pray for him, and let all your siblings know that you are a changed person”. When Paul said that he had become all things to all men so that he may win some of them, he knew that the power to win was within him; the gospel of God which is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. He said that people are waiting for the manifestation and release of the Spirit within us, so then we should be passionate about releasing the seed and not disappoint God and men.

Pastor said that Christ has been lifted far above principalities and powers, witches and wizards, and believers have been seated together with Christ in heavenly places (Eph. 2:6), meaning that we also have been lifted far above principalities and powers. This statement, he said, must be fully understood by all believers so that no witch could threaten us. It is the awareness of this truth that would vitally make believers live above the scare of witches and demons, he added.

“Believe that you are a superman, because that is who you are and that is how God sees you. And then when you are going about, even at work or in the lecture hall, wherever you walk, know that you carry the whole Godhead in you in all reality, and when people are looking for God please present yourself and release him to them”, Pastor Nyamekye added.

His second point was that believers must understand the dynamics of the new birth and properly position themselves. He explained that until a believer really understands the dynamics of the new birth, he would never be a great Christian. He explained with Nicodemus’ encounter with the Master Jesus, when he was told that he needed to be born a second time before he could enter into the kingdom of God. Jesus was not talking about the fact that Nico should go back the second time to the mother’s womb; but that because the first (natural) birth was after the flesh, he needed to be born again this time by the Spirit of God, because anyone who is born after the flesh is FLESH, but the one who is born after the Spirit is SPIRIT! Pastor elaborated that the unbelieving world are so helpless, because they were born after the flesh and so follow every fleshy presentation that comes their way. But we, who are born again, because we are born of the spirit, need to be spiritual!

He explained that there are two seeds in every believer, the seed of the natural parent and the seed of God or the flesh and the God – nature, so that the one that is nurtured outgrows the other. He said that believers have in us the flesh and the new man; the flesh lusts after fleshy things while the new man is spiritual. He noted that we ought to crucify the flesh; gain mastery over it. Believers should crucify the old man and live with the life of Christ and the faith of the son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us (Gal. 2:20).

Pastor Nyamekye said that if we would really grow above the old nature, we need to align ourselves with the things of God, because evil communication would definitely corrupt our good morals. “We must not only come out of evil company, but delight in God’s word feeding on it day and night”. Peter advised that believers desire the sincere milk of God’s word so that the spirit would be stronger than the flesh and dominate it. When we are well positioned, we’d be able to release the Spirit.

His third point was that the Holy Spirit works in us, all things to get us moulded to become like Christ and to manifest His glory. In the eyes of God, the ‘good’ is becoming like Christ, being transformed into Christ’s image. The good he said is not becoming the Chief Executive of a company; it is not riding in the best of cars, although they are beneficial. The good is one and that we’d be conformed to become like Christ Jesus. Therefore, the Holy Spirit would use everything and anything to mould us to become like Christ.

Pastor said that the believers have in us a light shinning, the light of God shinning within us. Yet since our bodies (jars of clay) are opaque, the light cannot be seen by the world. Therefore, we would go through all pressures and troubles so that the Holy Spirit working in them would break this jar and make the glory show forth. Through pressures and sufferings, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Christ may also be seen in our bodies. Thus even though the outward man is destroyed, the inner man is renewed day by day. So the work of the Holy Ghost is simply to crack this vessel so that the light in us would shine forth.

He told a story about how he got the opportunity to share in the despair which causes believers to seek help from everywhere possible. This incident stirred him up to ensure that the power of God is released in every meeting they organized in Church so that the needs of the membership would be met. After sharing in their pain, he was so passionate to be used of God to heal many that were sick. Pastor Nyamekye also said that he and his family shared in poverty on a foreign land, so that in these times, he knows how to willingly give to poor people he comes across. He added that God was working in all the afflictions that come our way so we would be conformed to Christ Jesus in every way. He also acknowledged that God brought some people his way who really helped to mould him into a better person, although he thought at that time that those people didn’t like him.

Pastor Nyamekye also said that the message on temperament is not for believers; ‘temperament is psychology and not Christian’. We may want to appreciate how different people could be, but then temperament is not the goal of the Holy Ghost. Since we are being transformed to be Christ, the Holy Spirit is working us to have the temperament of Christ and not a sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic or melancholic, or any mixture of them. His prayer was for all believers to present themselves as a living sacrifice in the hands of the almighty for Him to mould us into Christ in every wise.

Like the potter Jeremiah visited, God is moulding us into what we can best be. The clay marred in his hands because of a problem with the clay, yet the potter took all the trouble to fashion it to his own desire. Pastor admonished that amidst the prosperity message, believers should acknowledge the workings of God in their lives to mould them into the very image of Christ.

He said that our priority should be like Jesus who received to give to people, and not simply to amass wealth and miss heaven at the end of it all. He said that his desire was to be welcomed with the most expensive greeting “welcome into thy inheritance thou good and faithful servant”, and encouraged participants to aspire to this end also in all their endeavours. While all we think about is what we’d eat or drink or wear, we can never see a revival in these times, he added.

“The alabaster box had to be broken before the fragrance could come out, and the kernel has to be cracked before the nut would come out”. Believers have the light in us and we need to break up so the light would shine forth, he added.

His fourth point was that believers must cooperate with God to separate their spirits (spiritual) from their souls (carnal). He explained that the reason why we hear of men of God who are being used mightily by the Holy Spirit yet have very immoral lives is that those people have not cooperated with the Holy Spirit to help them separate the carnal side of their souls from their spirits. God’s word is sharper than a two – edged sword and is able to separate the soul from the spirit, so that even though our souls would be alive, it would not have the dominance over our spirits. “God is not only looking for powerful people, but He is also looking for pure people”.

His final point was that we must be people who practice the presence of God, if we really want to release the spirit within us. Before we can do this, we must be sons and daughters who have turned to be friends. He said that Abraham and Moses were friends of God, and so God revealed to them anything He wanted to do before He did. God revealed to (and actually discussed with) Abraham concerning the destruction of Sodom, because He was his friend. God also had a friend called Enoch, who walked with Him so closely, that when they got to Enoch’s house, God still had a lot to talk to him about, and so one day, decided that Enoch stays with him and does not go back to his house.

God’s friends do chat with Him for hours and not just a few minutes, he said, encouraging participants to be fervent practitioners of the presence of God. Such people exchange their strength (actually weakness) with the strength of God and their odour with His fragrance. This is what would make us the aroma of Christ, he added.

In conclusion, Pastor Nyamekye said that we must follow these five points and others the Holy Spirit would lead us to, doing everything to release the Spirit within us, because people around us NEED HIM!